709 patients are on hospital trolleys today according to the latest trolley watch figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
533 patients are waiting in an emergency department, while 176 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.
Cork University Hospital was the second most overcrowded hospital in the country with 72 patients waiting to be admitted, behind University Hospital Limerick with 90.
20 patients were waiting to be admitted at the Mercy University Hospital.
The INMO says there has been a pattern of extremely high levels of overcrowding following weekends and it cannot continue.
